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Manufacturing (12) Manufacture of tobacco products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products
90 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 September 2010
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Scandinavian Tobacco Group, a Danish company, opened a new cigar factory in Lummen (Flanders), creating 90 new jobs. The Group has relocated their factories in Geel and Louvain to the new facility, transferring 360 persons. The Lummen factory is now the largest cigar factory in Europe and has a production capacity of one billion cigars per year. The investment amounts to 32.5 million euro.
Sources
16 September 2010: De Morgen
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Scandinavian Tobacco, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 70968, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/70968.